In her watercolors, La Chola Poblete works with the iconography of the Virgin Mary.
If in the tradition of Christian art, the Virgin Mary is sometimes represented ascending to heaven, hoisted by angels and surrounded by saints or apostles, sometimes holding a rosary, with the Child Jesus or accompanied by symbolic elements of purity, in La Chola's works, the Virgins are surrounded by other beings, bodies that blur and artifacts such as crumpled cans, as well as questions such as "What is a man? What is a woman?".
Her appropriation of the iconography of the Virgin challenges patriarchal and heteronormative values, adding a new symbolic layer that includes the multiple identities and experiences present in South America, in opposition to the cultural homogenization imposed by colonialism and globalization.
Interviews
Image and sound: B Paolucci and Julia Gil
Editing: B Paolucci and Julia Gil
Recording of the works
Image: Helena Wolfenson, Marcos Yoshi and Tom Butcher Cury
Sound: Tomás Franco
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